Isbn: 9788193779491 - ranna gadayuddham: the duel of the maces (4 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. The Gadayuddham (The Duel of the Maces) is a kavya composed in classical Kannada literary style at the turn of the eleventh century CE. It is written in campu, a genre that developed in the tenth century as a mixture of poetry and prose. Ranna s poem is remarkably dramatic in nature and is a meditation on the cost of war. Crisp dialogue, body gestures and imagery fill the poem. It is as if the poet were giving us directions for a play. Ranna employs flashbacks , a technique called simhavalokana, that is, a lion turning casually to glance behind him. Ranna builds up to the duel through characters recalling episodes of injury or through lamentation. The duel occupies only a short space in the eighth canto, but Ranna takes this time to fill in past episodes and reflect on the impact of war. This thousand-year-old poem will interest scholars as well as lay readers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 340 pages. In Stock.

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